vi, 311 p. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : confessions of a presidential assassin / Brian Balogh -- The unsettled state of presidential history / Stephen Skowronek -- Personal dynamics and presidential transitions : the case of Roosevelt and Truman / Frank Costigliola -- Narrator-in-chief : presidents and the politics of economic crisis from FDR to Obama / Alice O'Connor -- The Reagan devolution : movement conservatives and the right's days of rage, 1988-1994 / Robert O. Self -- There will be oil : presidents, wildcat religion, and the culture wars of pipeline politics / Darren Dochuk -- Ike's world : in search of ideology in the Eisenhower presidenty / William I. Hitchcock -- Black appointees, political legitimacy, and the American presidency / N.D.B. Connolly -- Presidents and the media / Susan J. Douglas -- The making of the celebrity presidency / Kathryn Cramer Brownell -- Stand by me : coalitions and presidential power from a cross-national perspective / Cathie Jo Martin -- Taking the long view : presidents in a system stacked against them / Daniel J. Galvin -- American presidential authority and economic expertise since World War II / Michael A. Bernstein -- The changing presidential politics of disaster : from Coolidge to Nixon / Gareth Davies -- Conclusion : the perils and prospects of presidential history / Bruce J. Schulman

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